Proust Questionnaire: Erich's answers

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On Tue, 24 Dec 13 04:54:13 UTC Erich (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be without the people close to me.
Where would you like to live?: New York, London, or Paris (maybe).
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Living out the ambitions I work to realize.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Procrastination.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Characters with an intelligence I'm interested in understanding.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Madonna, Pablo Picasso, Karl Marx, Frantz Fanon, Cardinal Richelieu
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother, my godmother, and my grandmother.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Janie, Mikage Sakurai, Edna Pontellier.
Your favorite painter?: Picasso.
Your favorite musician?: Madonna.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Authentic kindness, intelligence, an energetic quality, soulfulness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, directness, elegance, good taste.
Your favorite virtue?: Temperance and moderation.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, writing about, thinking about interesting ideas.
Who would you have liked to be?: Either the male Madonna or the male Susan Sontag; perhaps both.
Your most marked characteristic?: Confidence tempered with practicality.
What do you most value in your friends?: Warmth, maturity, a critical eye.
What is your principle defect?: An inability to stop re-thinking or re-examining.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose the ability to think critically.
What would you like to be?: A professor, a critic, a writer, a father.
What is your favorite color?: Black.
What is your favorite flower?: White tulips, peonies.
What is your favorite bird?: the Crane.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Susan Sontag, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris.
Who are your favorite poets?: Frank O'Hara, Emily Dickinson.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Madonna, Hillary Clinton, my parents.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Margaret Thatcher, Coretta Scott-King, Madonna, Anna Wintour.
What are your favorite names?: Nadja, Emmanuelle, David, Alan, Joan.
What is it you most dislike?: The stupid things that people say, laziness.
What historical figures do you most despise?: George W. Bush
What event in military history do you most admire?: "Admire" is a strong word for anything military-related.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Laser-focus concentration for hours on end.
How would you like to die?: In a position to accept death.
What is your present state of mind?: Calm, calculating.
What is your motto?: "Plan your work, and work your plan."

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